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Today, I’ll show you why these excessive political leanings can’t stop and won’t stop, ever, until their tribe is well and truly defeated.

Recently, yet another megapastor lost his cushy gig due to scandal. John Ortberg battled against this inevitable conclusion for weeks, but yesterday he finally resigned (effective August 2nd). This scandal’s got a lot of similarities to the ones we’ve seen erupting out of evangelicalism like the angriest volcano ever — so I wanted to look at it today. Today, let’s examine John Ortberg’s scandal — and see what it tells us about that end of Christianity.

Today, let’s explore why the practice of Christianity is so gosh-darned hard for Christians.

Evangelical leader John Stott gave the flocks permission to move the evangelism goalpost so they could keep their strategies intact. Today, let me show you how that happened, and why it’s proven so important to evangelicals’ future plans.

A while ago, I ran into this bizarre newish warping of Christianity that epitomizes the more hardcore than thou mindset. Called Hebrew Roots, this movement takes evangelicals’ obsession with Judaism and cranks it up to eleven. Today, let me show you these guys — and then we’ll look at what attracts so many people to such weird, obviously-wackadoodle groups.

Hi and welcome back! For a while now, I’ve watched an interesting trend develop in American culture: Weird Christianity. By this term I don’t mean far-out cults and bizarre sects, though they’re certainly part of it. Nor do I mean something Read more